Copyright used to prevent repairing of products?

This week Kyle Wiens the CEO of iFixit published an interesting and frightening article in Wired about how Copyright gets used more an more to prevent people from repairing or even maintaining their hardware.

And one more important reasons to discuss and push Open Source to make a real Circular Economy happen.

#Policy Making

And there is also an interesting challenge mentioned in the article. To push this:

“Lawmakers in Minnesota and New York have introduced “Fair Repair” legislation that assert an owner’s right to repair electronic equipment they’ve purchased. They want equal access to repair information, replacement parts, and security updates.”